[tap-l] Parallel testing

Michael Peters mpeters at plusthree.com
Thu Apr 10 17:55:39 UTC 2008


H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> As Test::Harness `does' TAP, maybe "psmoke.conf" should better be
> renamed to ".taprc", which brought me to the question

Test::Harness does process TAP, but TAP has nothing to do with parallel testing.
That's all up to the Harness to handle, process and merge. So call it .harnessrc
or something like that.

> if that config file would be called .taprc (or tap.rc on windows/vms) and
> it would be stackable (~/.taprc, /etc/tap.rc ...) would that be usefull?

Just seems kind of YAGNI to me, but maybe I'm missing an important use case.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP



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